Dokadawaja
Chirping
- Jun 26, 2024
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My chicks are just over 3 months old (hatch date 23 April). They used to spend most of every day playing outside in their big shady pen or sitting on their outside roosts in that pen. At night they go on their coop up on their inside roosts to sleep. I shut the door as it starts getting dark and open it early morning.
About 2 weeks ago they suddenly started spending most of their time inside in the coop. It is hot here right now and it has to be much cooler outside in the shade and the breeze than inside so that surprised me but the door is open all day so it is their choice. Then I discovered they are spending at least a large part of each night with all 8 of them piled up in 2 of the 3 nesting boxes! Is this normal behavior for young pullets especially in this hot weather?
They were 8 weeks old when I got them and, as far as I know, they were all sleeping on the inside roosts every night. I occasionally saw one in the nesting boxes but they never stayed in there for long and certainly never all piled in there on top of each other like that. Sometimes I find them all in there even in the heat of the day.
About 2 weeks ago they suddenly started spending most of their time inside in the coop. It is hot here right now and it has to be much cooler outside in the shade and the breeze than inside so that surprised me but the door is open all day so it is their choice. Then I discovered they are spending at least a large part of each night with all 8 of them piled up in 2 of the 3 nesting boxes! Is this normal behavior for young pullets especially in this hot weather?
They were 8 weeks old when I got them and, as far as I know, they were all sleeping on the inside roosts every night. I occasionally saw one in the nesting boxes but they never stayed in there for long and certainly never all piled in there on top of each other like that. Sometimes I find them all in there even in the heat of the day.
